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August Wilhelm Schlegel
August Wilhelm von Schlegel was a German scholar, critic, Orientalist, Indologist, translator and poet. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics.
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culture · German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845) · linguist · translator · Sanskrit scholar · philosopher · poet · literary critic · literary historian · romanist · playwright · university teacher · also August Wilhelm Schlegel, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, August Schlegel von Gottleben, August Wilhelm Schlegel von Gottleben, August Wilhem von Schlegel, Schlegel
Born 8 September 1767 · Died 12 May 1845 · Q57281
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2017· 6 entries
Deutschlandfunk: August Wilhelm Schlegel
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Westfälische Nachrichten: August Wilhelm Schlegel wird neu entdeckt
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welt.de: Neuentdeckt: Eine Ausstellung zu August Wilhelm Schlegel
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literaturkritik.de: Romantiker, Wissenschaftler, Europäer: August Wilhelm Schlegel zum 250. Geburtstag
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literaturkritik.de: Jochen Strobel über August Wilhelm Schlegel sowie über „Praxis und Diskurs der Romantik“
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1871· 1 entry
Established for her a posthumous reputation as a German letter writer
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1845· 2 entries
Died 1845-05-12.
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Three months before its official unveiling
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1837· 2 entries
“s book An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology which originally had been published in 1819. In 1835, Schlegel became head of the committee organising a monument in memory of Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn, the composer”
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Wrote the preface to the German translation of James Cowles Prichard's book An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology which originally had been published in 1819
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1835· 1 entry
Schlegel became head of the committee organising a monument in memory of Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn, the composer's birthplace
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1827· 1 entry
On the Theory and History of the Plastic Arts, and in 1828 two volumes of critical writings (Kritische Schriften)
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1823· 1 entry
Edited the Bhagavad Gita, with a Latin translation, and in 1829, the Ramayana
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1818· 2 entries
A daughter of Heinrich Paulus, but this union was dissolved in 1821
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And during the remainder of his life occupied himself chiefly with oriental studies
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1817· 1 entry
In Paris, for like Mathieu de Montmorency he was one of her intimates until the end of her life
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1812· 1 entry
Travelled with De Staël, her husband Albert de Rocca and her children to Kyiv, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and via Finland to Stockholm and acted as press secretary between 1813 and 1814 of Swedish Crown Prince Jean Bapt
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1810· 1 entry
Schlegel was ordered to leave the Swiss Confederation as an enemy of the French literature
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1807· 1 entry
Attracted much attention in France by an essay in the French, Comparaison entre la Phèdre de Racine et celle d'Euripide, in which he attacked French classicism from the standpoint of the Romantic school
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1804· 1 entry
Made the acquaintance of Madame de Staël in Berlin, who hired him as a tutor for her children
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1801· 3 entries
Under the title Charakteristiken und Kritiken
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Schlegel went to Berlin, where he delivered lectures on art and literature; and in the following year he published Ion, a tragedy in Euripidean style, which gave rise to a suggestive discussion on the principles of drama
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And became the wife of the philosopher Friedrich von Schelling soon after
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1767· 1 entry
Born 1767-09-08.
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